A staff member from the library of Lebanon’s Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) met with the team digitizing Arab immigrant documents at the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
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Mahfouz Ag Adnane, a visiting professor in Unifesp’s Department of Art History, is researching the identity of residents of the Mazagão Velho district, which was established by people from Morocco. In July, he attended a local cultural and religious festival.
A project by the Lebanese Foundation of Minas Gerais (Fuliban) aims to bring together descendants of Lebanese immigrants from across the Brazilian state.
The Arab Immigration Memory Digitization Project identified notable discoveries among 41 books from the Metropolitan Orthodox Cathedral of São Paulo that were loaned for digitization. Project members returned the books to the archbishop on Monday (5).
Brazil’s Arab Community Day was celebrated on Wednesday evening (25) at the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce with the launch of the children’s book The Peddler, by Salem Nasser, and of a map portraying these immigrants’ legacy in the city of São Paulo.
On this March 25, National Arab Community Day, ANBA revisits profiles published by the agency that tell the stories and portray the contributions of some of the nearly 12 million Arabs and descendants living in Brazil.
A book written by two authors retraces the journey of a Lebanese family from a village in the Bekaa Valley to building a new life in Assis, Brazil’s São Paulo state.
Founded in 1925 by Syrian Raphael Kalil Dabdab, the Tecidos Raphael Dabdab store in Porto Alegre has faced floods, the pandemic, unfair competition—and remains standing.
Agreement sets that the university team will digitize and research documents for a project on the memory of Arab immigration in Brazil. A seminar discusses new perspectives on the Arab diaspora.
Henrique Tabchoury converted 22 78-rpm records featuring Arabic music into digital format. Most were recorded in Arab countries, but some originate from Brazil.
The Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Brazil’s National Library Foundation have signed an agreement that provides for activities such as exhibitions and the exchange of digital documents.
Lebanon-based Brazil Friendship Group in the Middle East held its annual Mass last Saturday (11) in honor of Our Lady of Aparecida, the Patroness of Brazil, for the Brazilian Christian community residing in the Arab country. The ten-year-old traditional celebration was conducted in Portuguese by Father Antônio Sadak at the Saydet El Najat Church in
The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik is hosting an exhibition featuring records of Lebanese immigration to Latin American countries and a conference on diplomatic relations. Debates and the exhibition’s opening will take place on Thursday (25).
The project “Orientes (en)Trópicos”, curated by Monica Hirano, will be launched in a debate next Tuesday (26) in São Paulo.
